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Date:      Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:24:51 +0200
From:      Palle Girgensohn <girgen@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 7.0 does not work on HP DL180, irq 10 storm
Message-ID:  <62858BF8F0D2B4C47A936646@rambutan.pingpong.net>
In-Reply-To: <200804161030.23577.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <885C4B6A17699CD41C7586C7@c-6354e155.1521-1-64736c12.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se> <200804161030.23577.jhb@freebsd.org>

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--On onsdag, april 16, 2008 10.30.23 -0400 John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> 
wrote:

> On Friday 11 April 2008 01:35:15 pm Palle Girgensohn wrote:
>> A customer is trying to get a brand new HP DL 180 to work with FreeBSD.
>> We tried 7.0-RELEASE-amd64 and the March 7-STABLE-amd64 snapshot, none
>> of them works.
>>
>> I don't have the entire picture, since I haven't tried installing myself,
>> the machine is 700 km away, but it is an experienced sysadmin doing the
>> installation. After install, which seemingly works, although the console
>> is complaining about IRQ 10 problems (can't say exactly what it complains
>> about), reboot to the fresh install does not work, the machine apparently
>> scrolls away a great number of complaints about IRQ 10.
>>
>> He tried turning off USB, serial and other stuff in BIOS, but it didn't
>> help.
>>
>> He tried Red Hat, and it works perfectly, so my guess is there is
>> something with a FreeBSD driver, dunno for sure which one.
>>
>> sorry I can't be more specific. Has anyone else succeeded in installing
>> FreeBSD 7.0 on HP DL180? (that is 180, not 380, which I know works fine).
>>
>> Thanks for any input.
>
> I had a bizarre IRQ storm on IRQ 10 for a DL 180 (or 185?) recently that
> I  didn't fully figure out.  The box had two bge(4) interfaces and if I
> manually  disabled the driver for either one (didn't matter which one)
> the IRQ storm  went away.  I haven't been able to chase it down further,
> but it doesn't act  like a normal IRQ storm (the storm should have
> "stayed" with a given device).

How did you disable the driver for one of the interfaces?

/Palle





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